Recent GC Faculty Appointments

Recently Appointed Graduate Center Faculty

The Graduate Center draws the majority of its 1700 faculty members from the CUNY colleges and from cultural and scientific institutions throughout New York City. The Graduate Center also employs a core faculty of some 130 scholars.

Beginning in 1999, the University and the Graduate Center made a commitment to strengthening this cadre. Since that time, the Graduate Center has added dozens of new faculty members across its disciplinary spectrum.

The range of interest represented by these colleagues is strikingly diverse, but three elements unite them: scholarly excellence; a broad interdisciplinary vision; and a deeply felt commitment to doctoral education.

CUNY Graduate Center Professor Kenneth Tobin has been awarded The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars (DTS), the foundation's highest honor for teaching and research excellence. A Presidential Professor in The Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Program in Urban Education, Professor Tobin was one of eight leading scholars to be presented with this year’s award.

The CUNY Graduate Center is marking its 40th anniversary year with the culmination of a faculty recruitment drive that has brought some of the country's most prominent academics and public intellectuals to the school's already renowned roster of scholars. Ten new core appointments added this year ‹ two in the spring, seven last fall, and one to come next fall ‹ join more than a dozen who arrived over the past few years, all acclaimed leaders in their respective fields. Read more

Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in Philosophy
Saul Kripke is known as a brilliant logician and one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. While a high-school student... Read more

Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in Computer Science
Gabor T. Herman is a pioneer in the field of computerized tomography (an important medical diagnostic procedure) and the author of... Read more

Professor, Ph.D. Program in Urban Education
Jean Anyon is one of few scholars whose work investigates political economy and urban education. Her last book, Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of... Read more

Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in Sociology
Mitchell Duneier earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His first book, Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity, which was... Read more